How will we assess the public benefit of charities whose aims include advancing religion?
We will assess whether the aims of all organisations applying to register as charities are for the public benefit and whether charities that are already registered meet the public benefit requirement. We will do this by carrying out research studies on the extent to which different types of charity are meeting the public benefit requirement and by working with representative professional and umbrella bodies and with users of those charities. Detailed assessments of individual organisations: in some cases we might need to carry out detailed assessments of individual charities. In those cases, we will ask each individual organisation to demonstrate that its aims, and what it is doing to carry out those aims, will be for the public benefit. Where appropriate, we will work with umbrella and national bodies to help assist their members in this. Where changes are needed: it may be that in some cases, changes will have to be made to an organisation to enable it to meet the public benefit requ
